List of Education articles
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DELHI, INDIA - NOVEMBER 08: Young India Children in class at Katha Community School in the Govindpuri slum district during day 3 of an official visit to India on November 8, 2013 in Delhi, India. This will be the Royal couple's third official visit to India together and their most extensive yet, which will see them spending nine days in India and afterwards visiting Sri Lanka in order to attend the 2013 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting. (Photo by Chris Jackson/Getty Images) India’s Elementary Mistake
The Modi government's planned cuts to elementary education spending are a step in the wrong direction for India.
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Screen Shot 2016-02-11 at 9.57.19 AM Want to adapt to a complex world? Get yourself some liberally educated officers
In late 2013, a past CG of U.S. Army Cadet Command justified the previously mentioned point bonus for STEM degrees because those cadets chose 'difficult academic majors.'
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PAKHTUNKHWA, PAKISTAN - JANUARY 20: (EDITORS NOTE: Image depicts death.) Body of a militant is seen after Pakistani Taliban gunmen stormed Bacha Khan University's campus in the Charsadda town of Pakhtunkhwa province in Pakistan on January 20, 2016. (Photo by Metin Aktas/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images) Dozens Dead After Terrorist Rampage at Pakistani University
It remains unclear who is responsible for a deadly terrorist attack that left dozens dead at a Pakistani university Wednesday.
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411417417_5dcb8505fb_o-2 The other side of the CGSC story: Some of our Army officers are functionally illiterate
Unlike the other armed services, who only send 25 percent or fewer members of each year group to resident staff college, the Army sends almost 50 percent of each year group. This results in functionally illiterate Army majors coming to CGSC.
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rickspatches5 A letter to the West Point Class of 2014: No combat patch? That’s no problem!
Best of Best Defense: Number 16 in our list of the most viewed posts of 2015. This post ran originally on April 22, 2014.
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GettyImages-162649433 Los Angeles Schools Close Due to Unspecified Threat
Officials cite the San Bernardino attack in their decision to shut down schools across Los Angeles.
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WASHINGTON, DC - MARCH 23: Hundreds of J Street U students rush towards the doors of Hillel International to put up post-it notes in a response to Hillel President Eric Fingerhut canceling his scheduled speech at their conference. (Erin Schaff/For The Washington Post via Getty Images) How the Israel Lobby Captured Hillel
Hillel International used to be a welcoming campus organization for Jews of all persuasions. Not anymore.
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BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA - SEPTEMBER 05: Hiroshi Hase talks to the media during a Tokyo 2020 Bid Committee press conference ahead of the 125th IOC Session at Sheraton Buenos Aires Hotel and Conveention Centre on September 5, 2013 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. (Photo by Alexander Hassenstein/Getty Images) Watch Japan’s New Education Minister Wrestle Ric Flair
Surprisingly, Hiroshi Hase is not the first professional wrestler to become a high-ranking official in Japan's government.
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Back_Judge_picks_up_flag_at_Rams_at_49ers_11-16-08 When I hear PME types use the word ‘rigor,’ I gotta throw the bullshit flag
A new academic year has commenced at many Professional Military Education (PME) programs. Per the 2009 Congressional assessment, PME must: “continuously evolve in order to imbue service members with the intellectual agility to assume expanded roles and to perform new missions in an ever dynamic and increasingly complicated security environment.”
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AP_58302930107 cropped Egypt’s Besieged Universities
The country’s scholars had better teach from President Sisi’s textbook — or else.
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GettyImages-457589010 cropped Tunisia’s Illiterate Democracy
Will the Arab Spring's lone success story continue if its citizens can't read?
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Afghan school girls play in the yard after their class at Ayesha primary school in Mazar-i Sharif on April 12, 2013. Under the hard line Taliban, who ruled Afghanistan between 1996 and 2001, cinema was banned and girls were prohibited from attending school. AFP PHOTO/ Farshad USYAN (Photo credit should read FARSHAD USYAN/AFP/Getty Images) Longform’s Picks of the Week
The best stories from around the world.
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GettyImages-126590192_960 Welcome to Afghanistan’s Peace College
Can you teach your way out of a war?
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This picture taken on June 8, 2015 shows a high school reacting as they walk out of a school after sitting the 2015 national college entrance examination, or the ''Gaokao'', in Bozhou, east China's Anhui province. Nearly 10 million high school students sat for China's make-or-break college entrance exams under tight security on June 7 to 8. AFP PHOTO CHINA OUT (Photo credit should read STR/AFP/Getty Images) China’s Cutthroat Academic Competition Is Ruining a Generation of Youth
The 'gaokao' college entrance exam is really a merciless struggle for wealth and power.
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NavahoBridges To bridge the gap between the military and society, try this grass roots approach
Best Defense contributor asks what can be done to close the civ-mil gap.
